Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling

We’re wading into the messy world of English spelling in this episode — the first of two, since we couldn’t fit all of the ‘quirks’ of the language into one episode. The history of orthography in English is all tangled up with the history of the alphabet, so in this part we trace some of the twists and turns that resulted in our modern script. The ABC Cocktail Our video on “Spelling” Christopher Upward & George Davidson, The History of English Spelling (2001) David Sacks, Letter Perfect (2003) Kevin Stroud, The History of the Alphabet (audiobook) NativLang “Thoth’s Pill - an Animated History of Writing” Transcript of this episode This episode on YouTube Our Patreon page Redbubble store This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License The Endless Knot RSS

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Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling is an episode from The Endless Knot by Mark Sundaram.

This episode is 01:12:04 long.

This episode was published on Mar 28, 2023.

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